Given how much I worked the review beat in the 2000s and 2010s, I have probably played a thousand games since the 2001 release of “Silent Hill 2,” and I have forgotten many more of them than I remember. And yet returning to this brilliant game almost a quarter-century after its release, I was stunned … Read more
“Scott Pilgrim Takes Off” retells the classic story with more loyalty to the source material than the abridged film, and the entire movie cast reprising their roles, O’Malley and co-writer BenDavid Grabinski pull a “Connor’s Wedding,” drastically changing the variables to service a bolder new take with all its familiar players. The series starts similarly to … Read more
After remaking “Resident Evil 2” in 2019 and “Resident Evil 3” in 2020—and releasing the excellent “Resident Evil: Village” in 2021—Capcom returned to “Resident Evil 4” with the same intentions as the other two remakes. Again, these are not “remasters,” which are just technical upgrades, like taking a Blu-ray transfer to a 4K one. They’re … Read more